Test 10 · ★ · Balconies, blades, batteries and strange bottles
clearin up, can i carry all 10 plates at once
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, i · What happens: clearin up, carry · To what, where: 10 plates
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 218 «Balconies, blades, batteries and strange bottles» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.
The question
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | clearin | clearin | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | up | up | ADP | _ | 1 clearin | compound:prt |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 carry | punct |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 carry | aux |
| 5 | i | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 carry | nsubj |
| 6 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 clearin | parataxis |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 plates | det |
| 8 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 plates | nummod |
| 9 | plates | plate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 carry | obj |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 once | case |
| 11 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 6 carry | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | clearin up | imperative | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | carry | can | i | all 10 plates | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plate=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
The options
Option 1
Yes, stack them up high
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 3 stack | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | stack | stack | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stack | obj |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 stack | compound:prt |
| 6 | high | high | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 stack | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stack up | imperative | you not said here | them = they | high property | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Carry a few at a time
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 few | det |
| 3 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Carry | obj |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 time | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 time | det |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Carry | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | imperative | you not said here | a few | time | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent few=Theme |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Carry them on your head
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Carry | obj |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 head | case |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 head | nmod:poss |
| 5 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Carry | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | imperative | you not said here | them = they | your head | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
Option 4
Yes, if you run really fast
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 run | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 run | mark |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 run | nsubj |
| 5 | run | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | really | really | ADV | _ | 7 fast | advmod |
| 7 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 run | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | present | you | fast property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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